Ruth Bryan OWEN

(1885-1954)

OWEN, Ruth Bryan, (later
Mrs. Borge Rohde, daughter of William Jennings Bryan), a
Representative from Florida; born in Jacksonville, Morgan County,
Ill., October 2, 1885; educated in public schools, Lincoln, Nebr.;
attended Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., and the University of
Nebraska at Lincoln; member of the executive committee of the
American Women’s War Relief Fund in London, England; war
nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment in the Egypt-Palestine
campaign, 1915-1918; lecturer, Lyceum and Chautauqua lecture
circuit, Miami, Fla., 1918-1928; board of regents of the University
of Miami, Miami, Fla., 1925-1928; author; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-first and to the succeeding Congress (March 4,
1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the
Seventy-third Congress in 1932; delegate to the Interparliamentary
Union at London, 1930; appointed Minister to Denmark (April 13,
1933-August 30, 1936); special assistant, Department of State,
United Nations Conference, San Francisco, Calif., 1945; alternate
delegate, United Nations General Assembly, 1949; member of the
Advisory Board of the Federal Reformatory for Women, 1938-1954;
member of the board of trustees of the Starr Commonwealth for Boys,
1941-1954; died on July 26, 1954, in Copenhagen, Denmark; interment
in Ordrup Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark.